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...start, it was clear that Redux has serious potential side effects. One is primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare form of high blood pressure that strikes the blood vessels of the lungs. Another, considered even more serious by some of Redux's critics, was the possibility of brain damage. When fed to monkeys, dexfenfluramine can destroy neurons. Says John Harvey of the Allegheny University of Health Sciences in Philadelphia, who edits the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics: "Any of us who were pharmacologists knew this was a dirty drug. None of us was surprised...
BOSTON--Like many of the city's swank food emporiums, Savenor's Meat Market is well-stocked with organic aragula, shiitake mushrooms and the finest range-fed quail...
...Tiananmen Square massacre, he has recently shown an inclination to loosen some political controls. Explaining the government's sudden tolerance for newspaper and magazine articles challenging Beijing's policies, Liu Ji, a close Jiang adviser, says, "People want to air their opinions, as they are now well fed and better clothed and better educated. It is a sign of the nation's vigor and prosperity...
...worked. The easy explanation is that when it turned out the limo driver was drunk, the public's anger at the press declined. Yes, but the anger could then just have dissipated. The tabloids were not about to let that happen. Sensing a turn in public mood, they fed and amplified it mercilessly--and with such success that by the end of the week, on the eve of Diana's funeral, the mob roared and the Queen caved...
...which that can be done is deeply troubling. For some, it brings into question the very basis of democratic governance. Democracy, after all, assumes a people capable of independence of mind, of some intellectual and emotional resistance. One doubts the very existence of that capacity after witnessing a media-fed mass hysteria...